Storms dominate the erosion of the Yangtze Delta and southward sediment transport

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. Electronic address: slyang@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn.
• ² Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Utrecht University, Yerseke AC 4400, the Netherlands.
• ³ Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA 70803, USA; Coastal Studies Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA 70803, USA.
• ⁴ State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
• ⁵ School of Ocean Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
• ⁶ East China Sea Centre of Standard and Metrology, State Oceanic Administration of China, Shanghai 201306, China.